Given the diversity of reasons why developers are using PaaS, the best solution is rarely obvious. Overall, technical support, ease-of-use and availability of developer tools were often more important than price for developers choosing a PaaS solution, but the logic behind the decisions isn’t always so easily identified.

The Map of the Developer Universe is a comprehensive illustration of how developers’ perception of products place them on the market map. It is an essential guide on not just the most popular solutions, but also the upcoming ones and the ones you or your customers can expect to be most satisfied with.

With the release of Uber’s API, their ploy to achieve world domination has just gotten a lot more probable. Uber has built the infrastructure that enables developers to add local physical transport to their products as easily as they would add push notifications or user management with a BaaS. Uber as a TaaS (Transportation-as-a-Service) platform.